Hello - ages ago I wrote prlmnks.org - a little site that lets you get RSS feeds to perlmonks.org proper. I have intended to make the code available to any and everyone to have a play with. Indeed I even created a project on sourceforge but then ran screaming at the horror that is their user interface...

Anyway the code is now in subversion on my server (?on subversion in my server?): http://svn.ecclestoad.co.uk/svn/prlmnks/trunk. It is currently read only but I am itching to let others go to work on it and improve it. Currently there is a bug to do with bad XML that crashes the scraping daemon (try DEBUG=1 ./fetch_node.pl 500633. I've also had reports that it produces bad XML. Both are probably encoding problems.

Unfortunately I really don't have time to look after it properly - please help! If you want to hack at the code then please let me know and I'll add you to the allowed users so you can commit. Please excuse the lack of docs - wrote it in a hurry.

-- Me, me, me: http://prlmnks.org/rss-feeds.html, http://scrpbk.com/~evdb, http://ecclestoad.co.uk.

In reply to Prlmnks.org code ready to be played with. by EvdB

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